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APRIL 22, 2025

‘A Billion-Dollar Question’ Emerges in GLP-1 Legal Fight

By Gina Shaw

Eli Lilly has sued the FDA over the classification of its investigational glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) drug, retatrutide, arguing that the agency improperly classified the product as a drug rather than as a biological product.

It’s one of multiple legal and regulatory strategies that GLP-1 manufacturers are aggressively pursuing to stop compounding of the lucrative medications, said legal experts during a recent webinar sponsored by the healthcare law firm Frier